"After 7/8 years of brotherhood on the road, in the studio, self-destroying, self-empowering, thrashing, trashing, howling and screaming - the time has come for change. I know what you're thinking - 'change is scary, I don't like change' - that's OK, but remember the waves never stop coming whether they're just washing over you or crashing down over your little floating lylo - Don't fight it too hard and you'll soon float right back to the surface.

The news is: Myself (Lewis) and Julian are leaving The Cosmic Dead in an act of metaphorical self-immolation: An act of devotion to the thing and people we've both held so close, that has defined most of our adult life, that has taken us across continents, that has connected us with the most beautiful lifelong friends all over the world, that has taken us to the plateaued peaks of human love and shown us the darkness that can lie beneath, that has allowed us to transcend these fleshy bodies so many times and be with everyone in that room together and whole - one big flame burning up to the heavens - passion, tears, blood, spirit and most importantly, love.

And it is with this feeling in our hearts, these experiences which will never leave us, that we each move on to the next zone - As our bodies burn, the energy released is a devotion to our eternal brothers, Omar and James, who will continue bounding boldly on this path we all carved together, recruiting new members, and taking the Cosmic Dead into it's next chapter.

The Cosmic Dead live on in this zone and in the next.In the distance the calling is loud but unclear: Julian leaves with the knowledge that a recent vacancy as leading celebrity astrophysicist has opened up echoing round his mind - As for me, I'm thinking about moving to Oregon and starting up a devotional community (DM for details). Of course, what would this be if you too were not invited to the leaving ceremony?: Of course, you are invited to ride the crest of this wave with us. Of course, you are invited to have your face roasted by our burning altars.

This is all for you. One final show in this beautiful, tangled form, before the branches are untangled and new blossoms spring forth, ushering in the next chapter in the Cosmic Dead.

And to the vast majority of you who won't be able to be there on the night to hear us say this - let me say on behalf of both myself and Julian - Thank you thank you thank you for everything you've given us. You mean more than you'll ever know."

Little bit late with this, but we'd just like to thank everyone who helped make our spring tour happen! (Full list, in no particular order, can be found at the bottom of this post!)
We've also updated the online shop with merch from the
tour, so if you missed out, you can now grab stuff, including Psych is Dead on vinyl or CD, the Eccie Bam Yas, E? vinyl issue, the Exalted King x2LP repress, or our new t-shirt designs (only 8 of the Orange Mountain design left, grab em quick!) We've also put the last remaining older shirts up for a cheaper price, mostly female fit sizes. All of it available at our bandcamp here!

Greetings travellers!Some exciting news for y'all, we're happy to announce that our sixth album is being released on LP and CD on the fantastic Riot Season label this April! In order to celebrate, we'll be taking our sonic black wine rituals around Europe for another little jaunt over the months of April and May. More info available over here.

Hello everyone, some exciting news to announce! Firstly, we'll be doing a special collaborative show with our friend Junzo Suzuki this Thursday (remember to vote first!) at Glasgow's Nice N Sleazy, in which we'll perform a piece we'll be composing in the couple of days before the show. This will see a release at some point in the near future.

Secondly, we're very excited to announce our summer tour dates, which also include a stint of shows in the West of the USA, culminating in our appearance at this year's Psycho Las Vegas festival at the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel! Hope to see you out there!We'll
have copies of Rainbowhead (coke bottle and green/cream swirl
versions)a special tour CD version of recent release Eccie Bam Yass E?,
along with a special limited edition tour CD which features previously
unreleased and unheard material, all for sale on the tour!

Okay, so we're fully getting our cosmic teeth stuck into 2016 now, and with that, we've some exciting news to share with you! Firstly, we'll be covering a lot of ground this March & April, hitting such far away lands as Greece, Manchester, India and Ireland!04.03 - (GR) Athens - Gagarin 205w/ Ozric Tentacles11.03 -(UK) Glasgow - Nice N Sleazyw/White Hills, Girl Sweat12.03 - (UK) Manchester - Victoria Warehouse - (Cosmosis 2016)19.03 - (IN) Bangalore - Moongate Music Venue- (Indie March 2016)08.04 - (IR) Dublin - Grand Social- (Reverberation 2016)Secondly, our new album, Rainbowhead, will be released on Vinyl and CD on March 25th via labels Blackest Rainbow and Paradigms Records, respectively. This will be supported by a european tour in July, and we'll be announcing the dates for that in the very near future! You can pre-order it on vinyl right here.

Thirdly, we're happy to announce that we'll be making our first ever trip over to the US of A in September, hitting the Psycho Las Vegas festival, playing alongside Blue Oyster Cult, Death, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Mudhoney & loads more. That's about all for now, but we'll have more news to announce as we progress through spring, stay tuned! (as a special treat here is a pro shot, multicamera angle video of our recent show in Greece!)

Pleased to announce that we'll be playing the next Night of the Jaguar club night on Saturday November 7th at The Glasgow School of Art. Only £4 entry, and it's a saturday night, so come down and dance the night away with us. Expect a deviation from the norm for our set, and the best in eclectic and ecstatic dance music from the sexy NOTJ DJ's.

We shall also be returning for the next edition of Manchester's Cosmosis festival in March 2016. Also on the bill are The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sleaford Mods, The Raveonettes, Wire, of Montreal, Ringo Deathstarr deafheaven, Ulrich Schnauss, The Longcut, White Hills, Holy Wave, LSD and the Search for God, The Lucid Dream, K-X-P, The Underground Youth, PINS, Brahma-Loka, Baba Naga & more to be announced! For tickets & updates visit their website over at www.cosmosisfestival.com

Only tour of the year coming up, and just a rather small one at that; to both see the summer out, as well as promote the new split cassette with our pal Girl Sweat! Exclusive risographed prints of the tour poster (as pictured) available to buy from our bandcamp over HERE.

We will also have new t-shirts available to buy on tour, featuring the same Cozmik Tonic Wine design as seen to the left in the tour poster. Shirts, prints, and the new split cassette will be available to buy, post tour, over at our bandcamp page.

So we'll be rather thankfully escaping the wet and rainy clutches of Glasgow next weekend for a couple of shows in sunny & summery Portugal! (Summer does exist!) First up, we'll be hitting the amazing looking Milhoes de Festa on the Friday (24th) playing the same evening as acts such as Deerhoof, Al Doum & The Faryds and fellow Glasgow friends Golden Teacher & Yong Yong!

We then travel down to Lisbon for a show at the Sabotage Rock Club on Saturday 25th alongside local band Urso Bardo! Hope to see some of you lovely Portuguese folk there! Click on the links below for more details on the shows! ~

So to end the year and to celebrate our recent split 12" with our pals Mugstar, we'll be doing a brief tour of the UK (first two dates co-headlining with Mugstar) and a special show in Paris with Liverpudlian superstars Clinic! See you on the other side!11.12 - (UK) Manchester - Soup Kitchen12.12 - (UK) London - Total Refreshment Centre13.12 - (FR) Paris - La Maroquinerie14.12 - (UK) Brighton - The Joker15.12 - (UK) Bristol - Cube Cinema16.12 - (UK) Preston - The Mad Ferret27.12 - (UK) Glasgow - Bar Bloc

You can buy copies of the official tour poster (as seen on the left) from our bandcamp (click on the SHOP link to the right) as well as copies of the split 12" itself, annnnd, orange and black t-shirts featuring the artwork from the split!

The supremely talented Kate Bones took some unique photographs of our set at this year's Supernormal festival, at which we closed proceedings as the final band on the sunday night. Think it's safe to say she did a fantastic job of capturing the energy of that evening's set. She's kindly granted us permission to post the animated GIF's on our website for y'all to see below!

Wow. So we went to Greece last weekend for a couple of shows, and it utterly blew our heads off. The people, the food, the landscape, the good. time. fucking. vibes. We love you Greece. We'd like to thank the following people who aided and assisted us along the trip, including - the incredible Elina of Smoke The Fuzz (The brains and heart behind the entire operation) who booked us to play and pampered us to the point of decadence, Christos and Stef who hosted and promoted the show in Thessaloniki, Dimitris and Alex for driving us to and from the airport and Thessalonki and Athens. Lunarmare and Circassian for playing with us at the shows, Elena, Nikos, George and everyone who provided wonderful company, all the people who came out to see us play, and not forgetting, the national drink, RAKI! Stay tuned Greece, we'll be back in your arms as soon as possible!

In other news, we're very happy to announce that the first LP containing recordings (or rather, a single recording split across two sides) from our stint in a little cottage in the highlands last year, is released today on shiny vinyl. A Limited edition run of 800, 'Easterfaust' is released by Sound of Cobra (our main man Ricky Biondetti's label). The front cover artwork was made by uber-talented collage maestro, Bryan Olson, and you should go check out his websitehere, his work is simply incredible.

Thankful to say we all got back from Europe in one piece again, just in time for xmas dinner with the family, and a slurry of shitty TV. As with last time, we met tons and tons of fantastic and wonderful people, and saw a nice large amount of new places (and new countries) as well. Mainland Europe, stay tuned, we will be back inside of you in 2014!!! (oaft.)

Special thanks go out to, in a roughly chronological order - Adam Ian Sykes, Simon McCaig, Chris Cusack & Bloc, Harrison Reid, Sammy Powell, Dead Sea Apes, Ghold, Ash Bronsan, Reds, Greg Neate, Megan and Jo Leggo, The Chunnel, Eileen V D Wilt, The city of Amsterdam (and its horizontal hailstone storms), Peter Weening and all the volunteers of Vera Groningen, DJ Rich, Groningen's Egg Balls (evidently worth fighting for), Vincent Teteart, The people of Salle Rogier Bruxelles, Wooden Shjips, Marjolein Kooijman, The Gooch, the people of Groene Engel in Oss, Matthias Rein and the people of Kubaa in Zurich, Vincent Melay, Pierre Desenfant, Noyade, The drunks of Lyon, Alice Renault, Libido Fuzz & The Raindrops, Paul & Sian, Fermin Manchado, Jinko Vilova, the people of the Sala BeGood, Edu
Garcia, El Paramo, the people of the Sirco Madrid, Nick Allport, Joao
Boryslav, Jaime Raposo, Al Lover, Carlos Ferriera, Asimov, Gesso &
the people of the Centro Cultural do Cartaxo, Andre and Amplificasom,
Lovers & Lollipops, Camera, Eric Copeland, Hugo Cano & his
amazing culinary skills, the people of Ibu Hots, François Menut, Boubi Sablon, The Heretic and its wonderful people, Acid Bonanga, Blackbird Hill, Naam, Nico Dead Pig, Marc Gerard, the kind people of L'escalier, the overwhelming generosity of a one Eli Pizzuto, Antony Chalmers, Throne, Superlove 5000 aka, Liz & Sean, Frances Ross, the Shacklewell Arms, Adam Reid, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Luminous Bodies, Repo Man, Ekoplekz, St John The Baptist for letting us use his Crypt, Liam Casey, The people of Stereo, Trembling Bells, Hidden Masters, Sharptooth, Big Hogg and of course, not forgetting Ricky Biondetti, without whom, the tour would not have been possible! Hope 2014 treats all of you well. Merry Cosmos.Also, if any of you wanted a print of the tour poster for this tour, but missed out, (they sold out towards the end of the tour) we now have some up for sale on our bandcamp over [HERE]!

So, on Monday morning, we leave for Manchester, which kicks off our second European tour this year. This time round we take in the UK, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, and frankly we can't wait. Oh Europe, we love you so. We'll also have some nice new shiny things with us for sale too, including the split 12" we recently did with our good pals Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, the S/T vinyl reissues, Inner Sanctum LP's, Exalted King CD's and A1 prints of the tour poster as designed by our drummer/onstage sweat dispenser, Julian (aka Moonshake Design).Come down and stroke our beards if we're playing your city.

Hello there Cosmic Dead website perusers, been a while since we last posted on here!
Pleased to inform you all that we'll be playing Liverpool Psych Fest this Friday (27th), which boasts a frankly AMAZING fucking line-up, as you can observe on their website here. We're on the same night as the likes of Moon Duo, Psychic Ills, Dead Meadow, The Holydrug Couple, The Oscillation, Carlton Melton and loads more great stuff. We play the 'Camp' stage (Oooh matron...) at roughly 19.45pm. We'll have lots of merch and posters and prints (courtesy of Julian AKA Moonshake Design) available to buy too.

The day after that, we'll be playing a gig in Glasgow at the 13th Note (Saturday 28th), with none other than Carlton Melton, who are on a UK tour at the moment. Relatively new band Sharptooth (Ex Curiosity Shop members) will be in support, should be a good un! More details on that gig to be found here. In the meantime, here's a Carlton Melton track to wet your appetite.

Lastly, Julian recently did an interview with the website Echoes and Dust.
Head over HERE to read it. **Warning, contains multiple references to Buckfast and Hawkwind**

Wow. 3 weeks of pretty much non-stop gigging, and y'know, we weren't even tired by the end of it! (well, maybe just a little bit). So much fun, so many good times, so many nice people. Let me assure you that Europe is the place to go for good food, good beer and good vibes. Do it. Do it now. Every single show of the tour was an absolute pleasure to play, and everywhere we travelled, we were made to feel incredibly welcome. Big shout out to Walter for asking us to play this year's Roadburn, which in fact provided the main incentive to do a european tour in the first place! Other big shout outs go to Ricky Biondetti & Swamp Booking for booking all of our European dates on the tour, Bloc for providing us with our transport, and not forgetting; the ever impeccable, veracious, punmaster generaal himself, Harrison Reid! Harrison was kind enough to drive us about for pretty much most of the round trip, kept us all sane, in high spirits, and made sure we didnt go all Jack Torrance and
kill each other. He also took many a photo and video during the tour, so
stay tuned, as that stuff will probably surface soon! In the meantime,
we order you to head over to his website HERE and view his photography as it's pretty fucking special. The talented bastard. Do it NOW.

We're very happy to announce that Sheffield based label Evil Hoodoo will be releasing our third album proper, Inner Sanctum this month! (Artwork just on the left there) It's 74 minutes long in total (what else did you expect?!?) and spread over 4 tracks.

It will initally be released on cassette tape with some lovely hand-sewn cases, courtesy of Thom, and possibly on other formats later!

Big thanks goes out to mircophone pointer/mixing desk jockey/secret pornstar Gary Milne, who kindly recorded us as part of his course at the SAE in Glasgow, way back in March 2011! We've been sitting on these recordings for quite a while now, so it's good to finally get them out there! We hope you enjoy our sonic transmissions!

Here's a nice little review the folk over at Funky Gibbins have written about the release. [LINK]

So, after a lot of effort and patience, our European tour is all booked up for April! 4 weeks of shows on the road, with only ONE day off. ONE DAY OFF. No sleep till Edinburgh. We're a bunch of hardcore motherfuckers, that's for sure. Anyway, we'll have quite a few things for sale on the tour, including large A2 prints of the tour poster as designed by our drummer Julian (Moonshake Design) new t-shirts, our S/T album and The Exalted King on vinyl, our new live album - Live at The Note on cassette (featuring the same version of Djamba used in the video below!) and a new album which you will hear all about very very very soon! In the meantime, you can view all of our tour dates below -

Our second release of March twenty thirteen is a download-only album of 4 various droney/ambient experiments, entitled Orbiting Salvation. The Obelisk wrote some kind words about it over at their [website].

"Released concurrent to a new tape Live at the Note that finds the at home in their space rock improv element, Glasgow-based jam heads The Cosmic Dead have today unveiled Orbiting Salvation.
A release of a much different kind — and digital only — it brings
together four ambient pieces put together by the band based on synth and
drones rather than the band’s usual psychedelic swirl. A different
lineup is featured on each of the tracks, but with the ultra-subdued
vibe each of the extended works presents, it’s easier than ever to lose
yourself in the sounds. If you have headphones handy, I hope you also
brought a snorkel. Orbiting Salvation has been made available at The Cosmic Dead Bandcamp page,
where one can explore a host of releases. That the band would have two
put together for release already only three months into 2013 speaks well
of what might be a very good year to hit up deepest space (rock).Far out and then some:"

We're pleased to announce the first of a few new releases we have lined up this month, a live album of our recent set at our spiritual home basement, the 13th Note. It's being released by local label Stabbed in The Back records, to a very limited edition run of 100 cassettes.

You can pre-order Live at The Note from our bandcamp page over [HERE], grab it quick before they all dissapear!

We are very pleased to announce that our debut self titled album is getting a relase on some lovely orange vinyl courtesy of the lovely folk over at Cardinal Fuzz.

Taken from the Sunrise Ocean Bender:

Available to pre-order from the 1st March via the Cardinal Fuzz website.

"The Cosmic Dead is another tasty slice in an already delicious
run of limited edition releases from Cardinal Fuzz. If ever there was an
opus deserving of a wax job, this is it. If you’re not familiar with
The Cosmic Dead, or this monster of a record, here’s your chance. And
you better grab it. As with other Cardinal releases, like the recent
outstanding Gnod/Black Bombaim live leviathan, Black Gnod, the unhinged jamfest from Bristol’s The Heads, Inner Space Broadcasts Vol. 1, and the sweet pairing of Black Tempest and Dead Sea Apes, it’s
sure to evaporate quickly. Cardinal Fuzz came out of the gate hard and
fast and established an impeccable track record immediately that shows
no signs of stopping. Access to the recent tour-only/RSD Mugstar epic, Centralia is in the works as well as a rare live outing from Sweden’s Hills. All good reasons to stand up and testify for the Cardinal."

So, we're extremely happy to announce that we'll be playing the saturday (20th) of next year's Roadburn Festival at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland! Also on the bill are Godflesh, Electric Wizard, Eternal Tapestry, Hills, Goat, High on Fire, Moss, The Pretty Things, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Cult of Luna, My Brother The Wind, Michael Rother, Mourning Beloveth and a whole bunch of other amazing stuff. A big huge massive special thanks goes out to Walter for asking us to play, it really is an honour! Another big shout out to the super talented Maarten Donders for kindly designing us an AWESOME poster (as seen on the right), go check out more of his work on his website over HERE.

We're also very pleased to inform you all that we are currently planning and booking an extensive European tour surrounding our date at Roadburn. So if you'd like us to play in your town/city and think you could manage to put us on, or if you know of a good promoter who could pay/feed/water us, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via thecosmicdead@gmail.com!

So, we finished our first ever UK tour with a very fun gig in Lancaster (complete with shroomed dancers) on Friday there. I think its safe to say we all had a cracking time, and can't wait to do it again. Big thanks to the promoters and bands who put us on and put us up for the night and fed us lovely food, including James Nash (Hello Bastards), Tony Erdelyi, Everyone at Supernormal fest & Ollie, Paul of Burial Chambers, Rich Dibble, Helouise & Olmo, Jason (Behind the Wall of Sleep) of Mugstar, The Left Hand, Verity & Emma (Fat Out Till You Pass Out), Vendela, Spacey Tanxman, Marian & Pauline Clark. You're all bloody wonderful and we wouldn't have be able to do it without you! Particular highlights include the entire Supernormal experience (make sure you go to the next one if you can, it truly is a fantastic and unique festival!), playing football in the suicide capital of the UK, seeing Mick Jones perusing the VHS section of Oxfam, Klaus Wunderlich's Cornflakes, meeting the Mugstar chaps, and Ollie and Wes's freak out shapes at the Yorkie. There are definitely countless others, but those are just a few off the top of my head.

We also have a special treat for all you Glasgow heads, if you missed us playing the Note the other week, we're playing Bloc on Bath Street this Wednesday coming (22nd) alongside Vakunoht.
The gig is free, starts at 9, so c'mon down to tune into some fresh off of tour vibes!

And lastly, we've now made our newest release, the Exalted King, available for download over at our bandcamp site [here]. We do still have a few cassettes of it left too, but they will most likely dissapear at Bloc or at Doune The Rabbit Hole next weekend. If you would like to reserve one, please email us at thecosmicdead@gmail.com. We will also have merch (T-shirts and Tour posters) available for purchasin' on the bandcamp very shortly, stay tuned!

Julian recently answered some questions from M3 on the pros and cons of
free music, the reasons behind the traditional album length and without a hint of irony (okay then, maybe some) the
band’s potential for psychic healing.
Read it [here]
In other news, we'll be ge going on our first UK tour in August, though we still need to finalise one last date, but there'll be more information about that on here once it's sorted.
Before that however, We'll be playing the Wickerman festival in East Kirkcarswell, sharing an eclectic bill with the likes of Texas, the Scissor Sisters and The View. Can't wait, I think they'll all end up being our best pals. Though we won't be sticking around for long however as we'll be heading over to Newcastle the next day to play at an all day event called Narc Fest. We'll be playing on the Leave Me Here stage outside The Tyne Bar which is free. Also playing are the fantastisch Queer’d Science, Juffage, Cauls & John Duo jazz duo. Hope to see some of you north eastern folk there!
[Facebook event page for that here.]